Lots and lots of work, but no sense of urgency. A deadly combination! Already last week I've spent ages in University on Corel Draw copying my field trip maps to a silky vector format, and am now a master at that program, which is crash-tastic on the university Dells in the computer clusters. Twice I've broken that program on the PC I was sat at, and had to swap seats to access it on another machine to get it working again. High tech fix!

There's a digital picture in the works right now. Sadly it's fanart, but very happily it's Fire Emblem fanart...Yep. *sigh* I can't think of any original content that isn't some kind of Adrian helmet'd soldier, or some preposterous mech idea.

But it's looking nice. I'm like Dexter (the one with the lab) a bit with my pics; everytime I'm doing a digital piece I'm absolutely convinced it'll be "My most greatest picture ever!!" but usually when it is finished, a few days later I'll just think "Meh, looks alright" or find it very hard to look at. But this time is different I swear! Hahah, ok so maybe not. We'll see. And anyway it's a good method of putting off work- combined with some papercrafting, TV and whistling to various classical music, it lowers academic productivity levels significantly!

The mystery of the haunted security gate continues. I can confirm it makes an irritating makes-you-jump bang every day after midnight. Oh what eldritch forces of depravity manifest themselves in the alleyway below my window on a regular basis? One night it even banged three times! Or it could just be the security guard pressing the magnetic locking button too much...

Despite the "subtle" Lovecraft parodies above, I'm having a break from his writing since the style is so unique yet so repetitive. I'll probably wait until I've finsihed H.G. Wells' The Sleeper Awakes, which I'm pleased isn't some thinly veiled social commentary, but a rip roaring adventure in Hive City London (take that WH40K!) with some social commentary. Seriously it's excellent though.

Upon advice of a friend, I've bought Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the DS. It's really good but doesn't half make me feel like a moron. The tricksy puzzles always get me, and when I try to think outside the box it's always just some irrelevant tangent...Bah, I will finish you with 100%!

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